On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:37 PM Todd <toddr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you might be mixing up two different things. > > First is the text of the Pytjon-2.0 license. I don't want to change that, > or the text of any other license. > > Second is the LICENSE file. That file includes the text of the Python-2.0 > license, the text of every other license used in the project, the history > licenses, and some other brief information. This is what I am suggesting > we edit. >
That may be how it's used in other projects, but in Python, even that file is carefully crafted by lawyers whom I don't want to wake up, despite it being nearly 20 years later. > At the very least the LICENSE file, as I understand it, should contain the > text of every license used (or say it is in a separate file) and a brief > note about where it is used if it isn't the "default" license. As I > mentioned, the current file does exactly that. So we would need to add the > CC0 license text and at least a very brief explanation of why we added it. > I think that a license that is strictly *less* restrictive as one of the licenses in that file doesn't need to be mentioned there, since if you abide by *just* the contents of that file you're still going to be alright. Adding the CC0 text to that file would just add to the confusion -- to what exactly would it apply? People could misunderstand this as CC0 applying to all of Python. > Thinking about it a bit more, considering there is already a license > history, I think this is a significant enough change that it should > probably be mentioned somewhere in that history. > Huh, I think we may need to talk to a lawyer at this point. > Of course the other stuff you mentioned should be done, too. Does this > sound reasonable? > Let me see if I can get Van Lindberg to give his opinion. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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